Books Quote by Edith Hamilton

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read…

— Carl F. Hovde

“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos…

— Grace Paley

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

— Marilynne Robinson

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated…

— Janet Evanovich

For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as…

— Os Guinness

“I had to go to literature to survive. It was through literature such as Black Spring that I came to a deeper understanding of…

— Michael Savage

“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic…

— Gary Snyder

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

— Wallace Stevens

“David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision”

— James Hollis